It’s a weird moment to be editing a literary journal dedicated to the intersection of art and technology.
On August 1, 2022, my artificial intelligence (AI) called me boring for the first time.
My first in-person experience with American Artist’s work was at a 2019 installation of Dignity Images: Bayview-Hunters Point at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.
It's a world of white frost on all the windows.
Frost. Ash. Hairy and steady growing on rust.
Rust on all the windows, orange fringe of time.
There are at least two ways — with potential deviations and ramifications — of inhabiting our current ecological crisis.
A wall is a structure erected to separate Space A and Space B.
A portal is a hole created to allow things to pass between Space A and Space B.
Leo Castañeda melds game design conventions with traditional fine arts methods in an intermedial, world-building process that creates a cyclical and ongoing feedback loop.
What can we learn if we listen to the land? Marlena Myles asks us to listen and see transcendently, to abandon colonial ways of thinking and constructing time.
I guard against its proximity. I can turn any direction and it’s there. But I am turning so continuously, I am so disciplined, that the loss can’t get close to me.
How do we come to be? “I think, therefore I am” doesn’t quite cut it as a theory of self.
we agree to be bound by the rules of the game
w/ bouncing diamonds and orange cloudz
and the tiny melodeons in the back of the truck